Dish-mop.



CHARLES ALEXANDER MASON, 0F WASHINGTON, DISTHlCT OF COLUMBIA.

BEST 'AVAILABLE COPY Irren-Mor.

specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. o, reos.

Application led September 18, 1908. Serial Nol 453,571.

To all whom 'it 'may concern:

Be -itkncwn that I, CHARLES ALEXANDER Mason, a citizen of the 'United States, residing -at 'Washingtom in the District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dish-Mops, of which ``=lemgthiof time `with food or other matter therein which hasadhered to the surface of the-dishes orsplates, orlodged in the corners l o f the utensils.

YThe object ofthis invention is to provide a ffrn'ewvandI improved: mop of this character lwvhichishall beso constructed as to thoroughlyand effectively remove any adherent f-matter from lates, dishes, or culinary 'farticles-offany 'nd Without sacrificing any of theiadvantages of the mop as heretofore 4rcomatruoted.

*"Withtheabove object in view this inven- -tion"c0nsists of `a dish mop com osed of the -odinarylhandle and the mo cad of soft fmateiall'havi-ngsecured to t e end ofthe 'Thandleeaki-.islodging device, as a brush or fscraper", oonstructedfand arran ed to remove Yfitdherent *materiaL-and furt ermore conistruotedl to enter the corners of kitchen wtutensilsin'such manner as to effectively Jscrapefoutsuchcorners and remove thereframe-material 1ct any character' that may havedodged therein. This dislodging device wie soaarranged relatively to the soft material .bfdsherniophead as to be entirely inclosed by vwsaid-imaterialwhich extends substantially be- *fyond-euchdislodgingdevice so as to conceal "fthes'ame ""llVhen in use the dislodging devicefmayffbe operated to remove material o-ih'om `the surface or cornerof a dish or utendevicetandumo ahead com ine to secure a4 valuablerresultrin ythis lclass of devices.

WOneof the advantages following from the .arrangement of the scraping or dislodging device within the bdy of the soit material of the mop, and so as to be completely in closed thereby, is to strengthen or stifl'en such soft material and thereby render it more durable, as well as to increase the eiiiciency ofthe mop when used in the ordinary manner, that is, as -a swab merely. These advantages would follow whethe the dislodging or scraping device was a bla e of flexible material, as in one form of applican'ts invention, or was in the form of astiii bristle brush, though possibly to a greater extent in the latter case.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like characters of reference denote like parts throughout Iiigure 1 is a View showing a ortion of a bucket, or kitchen utensil, wit this invention operating to cleanse a corner thereof. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the preferred form of my invention. Fig. 3 is a view of a modification, showin the mo head in vertical section and the mner en ofthe handle and dislodging device in elevation.

The numeral lV represents a dish mop handle of well known construction, the same having thereon the usual groove or grooves at the end to afford means for securln the cotton strands or' other soft material 2 t ereto, by a cord or wire as shown. At the inner end of the mop handle, under this invention, I preferably form a recess and locate in such recess a bunch of bristles 3, which in ractice will be made to project from the en of the mop handle a proper distance,` as will be determined by experiment. Referring to Fig. 2 of the drawing, this construction will appear very clearly, and it will be seen from such view that the mop head 2 completely surrounds and conceals within it the bristles 3. 4

In operation this mop is used in the same manner as other dish mo'ps, and when any material is found which adheres to the surface of the article being washed so as not to, be removable by the mo head 2, a slight additional pressure upon t e handle will bring the removing device 3 into contact with' the substance whereby the same may be scraped orbrushed from the surface of the utensil. In the operation of removing substances with this device the soft material 2 coperates with the remover or scraper 3, as, when the substance has been dislodged, or partially dislodged by the scraper 3, thesoft material 2 acts to wipe or swab the same from thesurface of the utensil and remove it entirely a manner and for the purposes described here therefrom.

In the hands 0f a skilful o erator it has been found that this mop may e sc i'nanipulated that the head 2 and removing device 3 are alternately brolght into o )eration upon different portions of the utensil as the condition of such utensil calls for their respective uses, and that with a very little practice food or other adherent material may be stripped from the srrfacc 'and the utensil cleansed in a very el'ective manner.

In Fig. 3 the removing:r device is in the form of a sera )ing blade 3, located rccisely in thesame relation to the mop hea 2 as the brush 3 shown in Figs. 1 and 2. In use, the construction shown 1n Fig. 3 is manipulated in substantially the same manner as in the referred construction.

While I have shown two forms of removing devices to be associated with a mop in the in, it is to be understood that this invention is not limited to any particular ferm of removing device.

l--l aving thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:-

A mop comprising a handle provided at its end wit i a recess, a scraping device Within said recess and projecting beyond the end of the handle and a body of ilexible mo material secured to the end of the hand e and extending a substantial distance beyond the serapin device whereby to completely conf ceal an infold the latter.

In testimony whereof I eilig; my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES ALEXANDER MASON. Witnesses W. E. ScnoENBonN, CHARLES LOWELL HOWARD. 

